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-, multi-, multi-million dollar over budget. >> the story a lot of people don't know after we got select today do this project, the first price we came in with was $180 million. and the city said, you know, this is a great building, but we just don't want to spend that much money. so, the project was on the verge of being canceled. >> if you're looking at why this building came to be, in many ways it also included mayor gavin newsome, particularly, who really had an affection for this building. he saw the design. he saw the potential. he wanted to make sure that that building got built. and he said, do what you need to do, but please, if you can make that building work, we need to have that building in civic center. >> i happened to be at a green conference santa clara. he said you shouldn't cancel that project. can you work with us? michael cohen phoned me up the next day. can we cut $40 million out of this project? it was one person more responsible than any others, it's tony irons, was the architect that was responsible for the revitalization of city hall who came to my office and sai
-, multi-, multi-million dollar over budget. >> the story a lot of people don't know after we got select today do this project, the first price we came in with was $180 million. and the city said, you know, this is a great building, but we just don't want to spend that much money. so, the project was on the verge of being canceled. >> if you're looking at why this building came to be, in many ways it also included mayor gavin newsome, particularly, who really had an affection for...
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i know a lot of what you do with policy deliberations is multi-year ten-year cap plans, multi-year sewer system rebuild plans. so, we'd be mindful of that multi-year rate planning as well. clearly those years where salary costs go down because of labor concessions and helpfulness in a bad economy. >> i think within the typesful things that rates pay for, the easiest to explain are bond issues. especially if it's a bond issue like the bond that were approved by the voters, you asked us to do it, you gave them monies, we promised to repay the loans that we have taken out. that's why your rate went up by this amount. that's very ease toy explain. it buys you seismic safety and reliability. that is an easy explanation to give. the hardest one to give is within operating. operating funds, so many things, some big, some small, that is just hard to explain it. now, if we start from a position that we want to keep things as loud as we can and provide explanations as to the forces, if any, that drive you above that, then i think that goes a long wail to completing an understandable story as to wh
i know a lot of what you do with policy deliberations is multi-year ten-year cap plans, multi-year sewer system rebuild plans. so, we'd be mindful of that multi-year rate planning as well. clearly those years where salary costs go down because of labor concessions and helpfulness in a bad economy. >> i think within the typesful things that rates pay for, the easiest to explain are bond issues. especially if it's a bond issue like the bond that were approved by the voters, you asked us to...
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and the multi-purpose room or the space that is really the size of a full professional-sized basketball court is envisioned to be a community space that can be accessed and used by the community in a myriad of ways. having a space on that northeast corner that is envisioned to be glassed in, open to the advice taz, something to be used is really an amenity that is lacking. * vistas the south beach is a beautiful room. it is used all the time. but to have this type of space on the edge of the pier we think would be really enhancing. >> thank you. >> thank you. so, at this time we will open up for public comment. [speaker not understood]. i have a meeting scheduled. i'll try and push it back as much as i can. i'll call the first five speaker cards. jamie whitaker, glenn da leanhart, [speaker not understood], barbara, and david hartzell. >>> good afternoon, my name is jamie whitaker -- >> sorry. please feel free to line up on this side of the chamber if i called your name. thank you. >>> good afternoon, my name is jamie whitaker. thank you very much. -- for having this hearing. i took a br
and the multi-purpose room or the space that is really the size of a full professional-sized basketball court is envisioned to be a community space that can be accessed and used by the community in a myriad of ways. having a space on that northeast corner that is envisioned to be glassed in, open to the advice taz, something to be used is really an amenity that is lacking. * vistas the south beach is a beautiful room. it is used all the time. but to have this type of space on the edge of the...
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luckily i live in this area because i wanted the multi ple transportation bay area options to me and i walk to bart every day. i don't have to drive a car. but there is a lot of small businesses that are in the live-work units, commuters, people who come and go. and i understand how this plan to have 600 additional parking spaces and 200 on the other lot will fit into the city's adopted congestion management program. that affects all the funding and so forth, so, thank you. >> thank you. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is peter. i'm a resident of rincon hill. i'm certainly in favor of san francisco having an arena facility. i submit to you that pier 30-32 is the absolutely wrong location for this project. it took 50 years and a major earthquake to get rid of a monstrosity of the embarcadaro freeway. let's not build another monstrosity on the waterfront. the artist's rendering show the most favorable use of the arena. if you do some simple geography, pick any point on the embarcadaro and see what is going to be blocked out, you'll see anywhere from 24 to 68 degrees of the hor
luckily i live in this area because i wanted the multi ple transportation bay area options to me and i walk to bart every day. i don't have to drive a car. but there is a lot of small businesses that are in the live-work units, commuters, people who come and go. and i understand how this plan to have 600 additional parking spaces and 200 on the other lot will fit into the city's adopted congestion management program. that affects all the funding and so forth, so, thank you. >> thank you....
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golden gate state warriors to rehabilitate port property at piers 30 through 32 diesel on the piers multi-purpose venue usable for public assembly uses and other events and develop a seawall lot 330 residential hotel and/or restate uses and accessory parking is fiscally feasible and responsible under administrative code chapter 29 urging city and port officials to make evaluating the proposed project among its highest priorities and taking appropriate steps for further environmental review of the proposed project. >> president chiu: supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: colleagues, thank you. this is a resolution before us that is just beginning a process of approvals for the golden state warriors in their proposed project to rehabilitate pier 30-32 and develop a multi-purpose venue on pier 30-32 and seawall lot. this declaration is both fiscally feasible and responsible owrpd your administrative code chapter 29. i just want to make a couple of comments, and also wanted to introduce a clarification amendment which i've distributed to members of the board of supervisors, based actually on advice from
golden gate state warriors to rehabilitate port property at piers 30 through 32 diesel on the piers multi-purpose venue usable for public assembly uses and other events and develop a seawall lot 330 residential hotel and/or restate uses and accessory parking is fiscally feasible and responsible under administrative code chapter 29 urging city and port officials to make evaluating the proposed project among its highest priorities and taking appropriate steps for further environmental review of...
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one of the views of the site from the distance shows how the arena and the multi-purpose venue itself will reach out into the water and create an interesting focal point along this portion of the waterfront that is essentially today an open space in between giants stadium and the financial district and the bay bridge itself. one of the other views, studies that we did was simply from public spaces. so, this is a view from an area that is essentially where main street reaches down to bryant street. today that's a lesser known street. but in the future when transbay terminal is built, one will imagine that street will be more pedestrianized than it is today. and also we'll see m
one of the views of the site from the distance shows how the arena and the multi-purpose venue itself will reach out into the water and create an interesting focal point along this portion of the waterfront that is essentially today an open space in between giants stadium and the financial district and the bay bridge itself. one of the other views, studies that we did was simply from public spaces. so, this is a view from an area that is essentially where main street reaches down to bryant...
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very multi-talented. i know it is kind after philosophical question more than anything else, but is it all worth it? >> the irony here is that after tomorrow we could see all this money spent over $1.7 billion and we could end up with a status quo election. we could have the same occupant of the white house, the same senate, the same house after all of this money. what we've got is essentially a stalemate in american politics. presidential campaigns depending on which poll you look at. 48%-47%, 47%-48%. this country is a very bitterly divided country right now and all of this sending is not doing anything to change the face of that. >> if you win it's worth it. if you lose it wasn't worth it. shouldn't have spent a dime. >> look. one of the things that this president has done early in this campaign is to use the money that he had knowing that he was going to have nearly unlimited in political terms amounts of cash. he used that money to go on the air early and really define mitt romney over the course of
very multi-talented. i know it is kind after philosophical question more than anything else, but is it all worth it? >> the irony here is that after tomorrow we could see all this money spent over $1.7 billion and we could end up with a status quo election. we could have the same occupant of the white house, the same senate, the same house after all of this money. what we've got is essentially a stalemate in american politics. presidential campaigns depending on which poll you look at....
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it has grown to giving meals to seniors as a full community center for 2300 multi-ethic seniors and families. when the white house had the conference on aging i urged them to listen to grass root activists in the community, and one of the people i asked them to listen to was my appointee to the conference chuck iayala and an advocate for seniors nationwide. [applause] okay. in the tradition of the great dolores jaurta and a living legend in our country chuck makes his voice heard from city hall -- mr. mayor you know that, to the white house to neighborhoods to the whole country and when a former president was threatening to privatize social security he organized the community and made his voice heard and prevented turning social security into a privatized gamble for our seniors. we all owe him a great debt of gratitude for saving that pillar of economic security. [applause] and he's doing that now with medicare, with medicare. i mentioned that dolores received the presidential medal of freedom and that day president obama recounted one of her mantras. she is always saying "don't wait to be i
it has grown to giving meals to seniors as a full community center for 2300 multi-ethic seniors and families. when the white house had the conference on aging i urged them to listen to grass root activists in the community, and one of the people i asked them to listen to was my appointee to the conference chuck iayala and an advocate for seniors nationwide. [applause] okay. in the tradition of the great dolores jaurta and a living legend in our country chuck makes his voice heard from city hall...
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pledge multi-surface. no worries. just clean. [ female announcer ] s.c. johnson, a family company. try these. new cepacol sensations cools instantly, and has an active ingredient that stays with you long after the lozenge is gone. not just a sensation, sensational relief. look at these teeth! they're made for meat! [ cat 2 ] do i look like i'm stalking plants? [ male announcer ] most dry foods add plant protein, like gluten but iams never adds gluten. iams adds 50% more animal protein, [ cat 3 ] look at this body! under this shiny coat is a lean, mean purring machine [ cat 4 ] i am too! hahahaha! [ male announcer ] iams. with 50% more animal protein. [ cat 5 ] yum! [ cat 1 ] i'm an iams cat. feed me what i'm born to eat. meow. >>> her daughter was missing. nancy started handing out flyers and counting off days without lyns lynsie. ticking them off on little post-it notes. she also went to talk to the police department. nancy wanted corrine to know about her lynsie, how nancy always knew where she was, how they were best friends. it was a speech corrine ha
pledge multi-surface. no worries. just clean. [ female announcer ] s.c. johnson, a family company. try these. new cepacol sensations cools instantly, and has an active ingredient that stays with you long after the lozenge is gone. not just a sensation, sensational relief. look at these teeth! they're made for meat! [ cat 2 ] do i look like i'm stalking plants? [ male announcer ] most dry foods add plant protein, like gluten but iams never adds gluten. iams adds 50% more animal protein, [ cat 3...
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. >>> and multi-millionaire software developer john mcafee is speaking out while he remains in hiding from the police over a murder investigation. >> announcer: this is "early today" for tuesday, november 20th, 2012. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm lynn berry. right now president obama is in headed home after attending a summit in southeast asia today. a fast-paced trip. it was escalating tensions in the middle east that required much of his attention. earlier this morning secretary of state hillary clinton departed for the region at the president's request. nbc's political director and chief white house kres spon dend chuck todd is traveling with the president. chuck, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. it's safe to say the events in gaza have overtaken or overshadowed what the president has been working on here in southeast asia. i can tell you this, last night the president was on the phone until 2:30 in the morning, first with egyptians president morsi and then israeli prime minister netanyahu. then back on the phone with morsi. the reason there, obviously talkin
. >>> and multi-millionaire software developer john mcafee is speaking out while he remains in hiding from the police over a murder investigation. >> announcer: this is "early today" for tuesday, november 20th, 2012. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm lynn berry. right now president obama is in headed home after attending a summit in southeast asia today. a fast-paced trip. it was escalating tensions in the middle east that required much of his attention. earlier...
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goal that we have to have, but we have to do it in the right way, holding people accountable, having multi-cultural services for the victims and survivors and allowing their voice to be heard, and not suppressed in any way. this is the goal of this grant, and it will i think help in the next two years with every single agency. so, i am so happy for not only the department of justice and president obama seeing this to be important, but that all the family of agencies that we have are can you having together very strongly to prevent this from happening. so, migratefulness to especially the community-based agencies because without them we would not have the model programs that we have. * we wouldn't be able to penetrate the barriers that exist, or to offer hope to victims and their families for overcoming this very, very strongly challenged area of our city. and i want to continue making sure this city is very strong in this and makes it very visible as part of our public safety approach to everything that we do. thank you very much. (applause) >> next i'd like to invite to the podium dr. morassi, the
goal that we have to have, but we have to do it in the right way, holding people accountable, having multi-cultural services for the victims and survivors and allowing their voice to be heard, and not suppressed in any way. this is the goal of this grant, and it will i think help in the next two years with every single agency. so, i am so happy for not only the department of justice and president obama seeing this to be important, but that all the family of agencies that we have are can you...
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[ female announcer ] tylenol® cold multi-symptom nighttime relieves nasal congestion. nyquil® cold and flu doesn't. that's right. so it's like i won. sure. oh my gosh i won!!! i won!!! [ male announcer ] get a $100 walmart gift card when you buy any android or windows 8 smartphone. through december 1st. from america's gift headquarters. walmart. >>> senators rarely take each other as role models, there's not a lot of love lost between the trenches. >> one of the questions i get all the time when i give speeches, what is wrong with those people? i think we discussed it a little bit when we were talking about fiscal cliff, meaning congress. why can't they ever do anything? i wanted to ask you all -- >> i thought you meant the voters who sent us here. they're the ones who voted. >> the voters who sent you often ask me why can't they get anything done? my question to you is does it seem worse to you now, and what do you consider the good old days? >> well, i think there are a couple of things that have contributed to the gridlock that we have now and the overpartisanship.
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moving on to our next item, no. 11, sfmta multi modal accessibility advisory committee update. presentation by mdc council member roland wong. >> thank you very much. i will start off, san francisco has one of the longest standing committees to advise san francisco metropolitan transportation agency. the sfmta maac multi modal accessibility advisory committee, a 21-member strong voice of seniors and people with disabilities. a few projects we have accomplished is the big project like st. francis circle, like when they have, we've done the rails and made the pathways, way finding ramps, everything much more accessible. like minor enhancements like a (inaudible) station by installing automatic push button for better access to the station. we're working in progress weigh in concerns with bikes and pedestrian safety. another thing that we are trying to work on is better access to bart and access busses. many busses are blocked by vehicles that interfere, a path in order to enter or exit a bus like the 1846 avenue and 31 balboa bus line. there are many muni lines that need improveme
moving on to our next item, no. 11, sfmta multi modal accessibility advisory committee update. presentation by mdc council member roland wong. >> thank you very much. i will start off, san francisco has one of the longest standing committees to advise san francisco metropolitan transportation agency. the sfmta maac multi modal accessibility advisory committee, a 21-member strong voice of seniors and people with disabilities. a few projects we have accomplished is the big project like st....